Please Help!!!Read Error on Tape After Netbackup

[Lola92822]

I am using Veritas Net Backup 4.5 FP6 on a Windows 2000 server SP4. The 200 GB LTO HP branded tapes. I have an HP MSL5000 tape library with 4 drives. I am getting a read error status 85 when reading one of my tapes. Has anyone ever experienced this problem? Any help would be great

 

[lenski]

Tape is tapes, errors will happen from time to time. Try doing a verify on the tape.

 

[Vela]

That's fairly common. Try cleaning the tape drive and rerunning with the same tape. If it fails with a media error three times, lose the tape


Ryan

 

[creakyjoe]

It might be worth going FP8. I did this in a couple of stages last week, piece of cake, but then i have a fairly straightforward setup. I used to suffer mainly from Positioning errors. Touch wood that's gone away but as i say it's only been a week.

You should also check your cleaning tape config. For LTO's for instance you shouldn't have cleaning frequencies setup in NetBackup. I only mention this as i mistakenly set cleaning frequencies up after a migration from DLT drives

Rich